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Two drips... or peas in a pod

richmx2 wrote 4 days ago: Anyone who has ever taught a foreign language knows what a trap idioms and expressions can be.  Whi … more →

Tags: Humor, media, Spanish/Spanglish

Stratfor, Fox News: "We can't help it, we're morons... n'yuck, n'yuck, n'yuck"

richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: The Stratfor “Geopolitical Intelligence Report” needs a new name.  Peter Zeihan’ … more →

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), media, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Crack-pots, Kitsch

What could possibly go wrong?2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: The credit crisis in the U.S. is yet another reason to pay attention to Mexican history… Thoma … more →

Tags: Economy & Business, Mexican History 1921+

New Mexico Republican's His-panic Attack1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: All over the press right now is the outrageous statement by Bernadillo County, New Mexico Republican … more →

Tags: La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Right Wing Idiots, media, Spain, Bill Richardson, Bureaucracy, Crack-pots, Political bloggers

Texas hold'em...1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: From Grits For Breakfast comes another sweetheart deal for GEO Group — the rent-a-prison folks … more →

Tags: Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, GEO Group, Homeland Security!, Human Rights, Indocumentados

What is to be done?2 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: With the argument that “we cannot allow a failed state on our borders, and ‘shit runs downhill … more →

Tags: Humor, Economy & Business, Human Rights

Bush-whacked economy1 comment

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: (Dollar bill redesign from portfolio.com via Inca Kola News) Rules seem to be changing all over the … more →

Tags: George W. Bush, Economy & Business, Trade agreements and issues, NAFTA, Border Issues, Bureaucracy

Miffed sheriff takes his boys and goes home

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: Guadalupe, Arizona is in Maricopa County, Arizona… BUT apparently won’t receive county s … more →

Tags: Crime and Punishment, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), policía, Human Rights, Manifestaciones, Yaqui

"I didn't do nothin' and I'll never do it again..."

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: If you’re wondering why so many down here (myself included) have a jaundiced view of Plan Meri … more →

Tags: drugs, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Legal System, Border Issues, Evil-doers, Informal economy, Courts, Gun runners

The "Cantina Putsch" in Bolivia2 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m not sure whose head was up whose ass at the Washington Post when they published an editori … more →

Tags: Argentina, Bolivia, Evil-doers, Human Rights, media, neo nazis, Terrorism, Venezuela

Mexicans are not Spaniards, nor are Spaniards Mexicans2 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: From the U.S. election news (Americablog.com): … John McCain didn’t appear to know that … more →

Tags: Humor, John McCain, Spain

No shit!1 comment

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: Geeze, after being the plot of a never made movie, endless blathering by the right wing , complete f … more →

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Crack-pots, cuba, Evil-doers, Homeland Security!, Luis Posada Carriles (U.S. terrorist), media, Spain, Spin doctors

When the U.S. catches a cold, Mexico catches pneumonia, but when the U.S. catches pnumonia...

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: It may not be so bad… (Ken Parks, Dow Jones Newswire): Mexico’s banks have no meaningful … more →

Tags: Economy & Business, Banking

STELLLLLLLAAAAAAA! Stanley Kowalski a Mexican stud?

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: Stace Medellin, who normally writes about Houston area politics on his Dos Centavos site, has shown … more →

Tags: Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc., Gays, Gregg Barrios, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), marlon brando, Mexican-American Writers/Artists, New Orleans, Non-Mexican writers/artists on Mexico, Political bloggers

I don't like Ike (update)

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Galveston appears to have survived, but something strange is going on.  The Houston Chronicle … more →

Tags: cuba, Environment, military, Texas, Homeland Security!, Mexican Army, Bureaucracy, Galveston

Is there still a Galveston?

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: (Houston Chronicle photo by Johnny Hansen of the memorial to the victims of the 1900 hurricane that … more →

Tags: Environment, Texas, Galveston

Shock therapy 1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change. (Milton Friedman). Scott Henson’s Te … more →

Tags: Education and educators, ciudad de mexico, Política mexicana, Crime and Punishment, Real Mexico, Economy & Business, policía, Human Rights, Environment

Cuban heels...

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: Could the great Merida head-chopping story get any more twisted?  After reports in the AP that the … more →

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Crime and Punishment, cuba, Death Squads, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Indocumentados, Informal economy, Los Zetas

"A profound shudder"2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío wrote for The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America … more →

Tags: Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc., Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Writers, artists, philosphers outside Mexico, Nicaragua, dead white guys, Rubén Darío, Theodore Roosevelt


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